Cumberbatch is having way too much success, and apparently way too much fun to encumber himself in high pressure tent poles — keep up the unique castings and keep surprises to yourself — long live the Cumberbatch!

Or just under $400m worldwide as of Sunday the 18th of August. ($384 and counting. The film could be on course to end its run with a similar amount to Star Trek Into Darkness; a film that cost the same as Pacific Rim to produce. Yet (just as with Star Trek (2009 and X-Men Origins Wolverine) one film is being bashed as a flop, while the other (both cases Trek) most decidedly is not.